The will (dated March 26th, 1874) of the Rev. William Hill, late of Lansdowne Villas, Springfield Road, Cotham, Bristol, Baptist minister, who died on November 11, 1879, was proved at the district registry, Bristol, by Emerson Geerish and Thomas Bowbeer, the executors, under three thousand pounds. After the death of his wife he gives to the Society for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Baptist Ministers, instituted in Bath, 1816, and to the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, each one hundred pounds. The testator directs “the payment of all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, as soon as conveniently may be after my departure to heaven; but, as this is to be my final public document, I shall here record my detestation of all State establishments of religion, believing them to be anti-scriptural and soul-ruining. I have for years prayed the King of Zion to overthrow the politico-ecclesiastical establishment of the British Empire, and I leave the world with a full conviction that such prayer must ere long be answered. I thirst to see the Church brought down, the Church by man set up, for millions are by it led on to drink a bitter cup. I desire all posterity to know that William Hill was a conscientious Trinitarian Baptist Minister, and that he believed infant sprinkling to be from his Satanic Majesty, the keystone of Popery, therefore the parent of unnumbered terrible evils; this delusion must also pass away at the Divinely-appointed time, and the immersion of believers, as plainly taught by the Great Teacher, the Holy Ghost, and the Apostles, shall one day universally triumph. Man says, some water in the face, and that before the child has grace, is what is meant in Jesus’ word, by being buried in the Lord. The deadly drinking customs of professors and non-professors are likewise doomed. Heaven dash all error, sin, and the devil from the earth, and cause truth, holiness, and Christ everywhere to prevail. Amen.” THREE TESTAMENTARY GEMS The three testamentary gems following are to be found in one volume of the Pennsylvania State Reports: NUMBER ONE “February the 28, 1858. “the requeste of tresse Carey i want ransler Carey to hav my plase as long as he shall live i want drusilla Carey to stay and keepe house for hur father and marten i want mr carey to give lovica shoop wone shale wone pare of stockings Rozanner dark wone coveled i want cathern stanten to hav my cloak and to Dresses i want (erasure) mr carey to give Won hundred Dolars two the methodus Church I want drusila carey to hav all my household property as soon as i am ded. and after mr carey is ded i want drusila (erasure) (erasure) carey two hav my farm. her Tereisse X carey” mark NUMBER TWO